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The Stockholm Metaphor Festival is an annual two-day conference on the use of figurative language, arranged by The English Department at Stockholm University. It brings together researchers from a broad range of academic disciplines, working within different theoretical and methodological paradigms, in a creative, internationally oriented and friendly atmosphere. The importance of figurative language is now generally recognized, and the Festival offers an opportunity to present and learn about research findings concerning figures of speech in different types of discourse, and their cognitive, cultural, narrative, poetic, rhetorical, social or textual functions. Contributions to the Festival can be about the literary or linguistic character and use of tropes - metaphor, metonymy, simile, oxymoron, hyperbole, punning, and irony - or the character and use of rhyme schemes and various types of parallelism, as well as about communicatively effective interaction of different kinds of figurative devices.

Each talk is allotted 30 minutes at the Festival, roughly 20 minutes for the presentation and 10 minutes for discussion. There is also a separate poster session that can be visited by all participants in the Festival.

Abstract Guidelines: Abstracts should be written in English, and they are expected to be about 300 to 400 words long. The abstract should have a title, but the author's name, academic affiliation, and email address should be indicated on a separate sheet, where it should also be specified whether the abstract is intended as a basis for a talk or a poster presentation.

All abstracts should be emailed to MetaphorfestivalEnglish.su.se .

Information about acceptances will be emailed by 30 April to all scholars submitting an abstract.

A selection of papers from each Festival is published in a volume edited by members of the organising committee.

Conference fee: 50 for early registration, by 31 July; 70 from 1 August.

The 'V Encuentro de Gramática Generativa', which will be held in General Roca (Patagonia Argentina) on July 29, 30, 31st and August 1st 2009, is organized by the Maestría en Lingüística de la Escuela Superior de Idiomas (Universidad Nacional del Comahue).

Call for Papers

Submissions are invited for papers in any field related to the formal study of grammar (Syntax, Morphology, Phonology, Semantics, lexical theory, interfaces, Language Acquisition, Philosophy of language). Grammatical descriptions within any explicit and formal framework are welcome. Talks will be organized around major topics, depending on the content of the submissions. Unlike previous meetings, the 2009 edition will include a special session on language acquisition in memory of Dr. Celia Jakubowicz.

Abstract Submission: Abstracts should be sent by e-mail as an attachment to the following address: encuentroggyahoo.com.ar. Abstracts should be no longer than two pages, including references and examples, with margins of at least 1-inch, 12pt font. In the plain text part of your email message (not the attachment), please supply the following information: